New Artizan Preview- new releases next week !

[cwchmc]

WOOOO-HOOOOO!!!! I finally found my Poirot mini I been looking for!!!!

Chuck

[Poliorketes]

IMHO the best release in the series so far. I'm only a bit courius about the choice for the russian machine guns. Whites with soviet guns from the 30ies/40ies?

[Westfalia Chris]

Humm, I´m no expert on small arms minutiae, but to me, those look more like Bergmanns rather than PPSHs... and I think those were around in the 1920s, or am I confusing things?!?

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[Malamute]

Love that Poirot figure.  :love: These just keep getting better and better

[Poliorketes]

Humm, I´m no expert on small arms minutiae, but to me, those look more like Bergmanns rather than PPSHs... and I think those were around in the 1920s, or am I confusing things?!?

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Bergmans, yes, and that's what I took them for at first. But Viewing the larger pics on Artizans Website they don't look like MP18/28. Maybe the angle is wrong, but it seems the drum magazine is at the bottom (the bergman drum was at the side). To me it looks like a PPD34/38, maybe a PPD40. The only LMG that looks similar to the one in the release is the DP28.

Mind me, as these figures are for pulp I won't critisise anachronisms (hey, these are early prototypes) or whites using red equipment (booty - or the reds stole the white prototypes later on!).

[Westfalia Chris]

Hummm... Maik, are you sure that you are no Redneck Militiaman with a budding gun fetish? ::

Interesting to know!

However, just as you pointed out, I don´t really care in a pulp environment... and for those obsessed people, I guess one could convert the figs by repositioning the mags?

It IS a bit awkward, though, indeed.

[Morten]

Top miniatures, Rick is a must have  :wink:

[area23]

You know, what's missing is a Corto Maltese-style Rasputin for the whites!

[Captain Blood]

I had a quick mooch in my nearest wargames emporium today, to find that happily, they have just started carrying packs of Artizan's Thrilling Tales range. Rah!

Interestingly however, rather than individual figures, they are carrying packs of three different figures such as 'three pulp heroines' or 'Sky Pirate raiders'.

This 'bundled' option on these figures doesn't appear on the Artizan website, so maybe it's a new departure...

Rather dimly, I didn't notice if the three figure packs were actually cheaper than the 6.00 GBP face value if one bought the three figures individually... Doh!

[W.B.Kurgan]

I think they have been doing the triple-packs since they introduced the Thrilling Tales range (though no-one in Manchester stocks them   ). That's why the new releases are often in groups of figures!  :wink:

[Captain Blood]

Well, that just goes to show how little attention I've been paying!  :oops:

Wonder why Artizan only sell them as singles online?

Not that I'm complaining - I'm no fan of 'the tyranny of the pack'! (I have far too much lead sitting unused because I wanted a pack for just two or three out of six or eight figures... )

[W.B.Kurgan]

If you hadn't seen them in a shop you weren't to know!  :mrgreen:

There was a reason given for the triple/single pack decision, but I have no memory of what it was! It seemed logical at the time...
 

[Skrapwelder]

When first released the line was mail order only for single figures. I think it was because the range was small and just starting out.